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@drneuro.bsky.social

Former CDC guy | Calm but Angry| He/him | Medical Science Communicator | Opinion =My own

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Two cats, one orange and one gray playing in a cat Costco warehouse toy.

Two cats, one orange and one gray playing in a cat Costco warehouse toy.

Yup. We’re all Costco Executive members now

02.10.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
Article titled - Secretary of State Marco Rubio shot down ABC News host George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday as he pushed the narrative that President Donald Trump’s cuts to foreign aid caused many people to die.

(This is false)

Article titled - Secretary of State Marco Rubio shot down ABC News host George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday as he pushed the narrative that President Donald Trump’s cuts to foreign aid caused many people to die. (This is false)

Of all the people, Rubio knows DAMN well that the United States is the LARGEST contributor to the Global Fund, which provides lifesaving treatment for AIDS, TB, and Malaria.

Every year we have contributed BILLIONS in helping countries get these treatments.

www.theglobalfund.org/en/government/

23.09.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

The insidious β€œobvious now” factor is that all this dialog of vaccine and Tylenol causing autism is that it’s normalizing and setting the tone of β€œneurodivergence is an unforgivable sin and we must not let them exist”

We are not a sin.
We deserve to exist.
We deserve love.

23.09.2025 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Thank you!

20.09.2025 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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20 years ago I would never think that it was acceptable for men to get their nails done

Even after coming out, there was the extremely toxic gay dating culture of β€œno femme, no Asians, no Blacks, no fat” mentality

Today I said β€œfuck it” and went to get a manicure and select my nail polish

20.09.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

It appears we’ve now gone down the rabbit hole (again) of anecdotes being evidence for mRNA vaccines causing cancer. And Robert Malone with his tacky:dated tinfoil hat claiming Pfizer tampered with their safety data… (with no evidence)

I need to just make a bingo card of all the best hits

19.09.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Luckily insurances are still covering for everything for the most part and providers for most folks can still administer without issues, but I would not be surprised if more challenging exceptions will come up. This group is hell bent on fumbling everything

19.09.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

On a basic level, the meetings were just a mess of folks unable to simply get votes/have cohesive discussions. Anti-vax tropes galore and a FUNDAMENTAL/PRE-REQUISITE lack of understanding of how our Vaccines for Children(VFC) program is aligned with ACIP recommendations. 100% β€œfools gold” science

19.09.2025 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If anyone has followed me back when I covered CDC’s ACIP meeting pre-trump, you’d understand that the group that is responsible for reviewing the data and making recommendation on vaccines are not THIS incompetent. Listening to their β€œdeliberation” was equivalent to Reddit conducting a vibe check

19.09.2025 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Health plans are committed to maintaining and ensuring affordable access to vaccines. Health plan coverage decisions for immunizations are grounded in each plan’s ongoing, rigorous review of scientific and clinical evidence, and continual evaluation of multiple sources of data.

β€œHealth plans will continue to cover all ACIP-recommended immunizations that were recommended as of September 1, 2025, including updated formulations of the COVID-19 and influenza vaccines, with no cost-sharing for patients through the end of 2026.

β€œWhile health plans continue to operate in an environment shaped by federal and state laws, as well as program and customer requirements, the evidence-based approach to coverage of immunizations will remain consistent.”

Health plans are committed to maintaining and ensuring affordable access to vaccines. Health plan coverage decisions for immunizations are grounded in each plan’s ongoing, rigorous review of scientific and clinical evidence, and continual evaluation of multiple sources of data. β€œHealth plans will continue to cover all ACIP-recommended immunizations that were recommended as of September 1, 2025, including updated formulations of the COVID-19 and influenza vaccines, with no cost-sharing for patients through the end of 2026. β€œWhile health plans continue to operate in an environment shaped by federal and state laws, as well as program and customer requirements, the evidence-based approach to coverage of immunizations will remain consistent.”

Regardless of ACIP’s decision this week (this is one component of the vaccines availability) AHIP has noted that health plans will continue to cover all recommended immunizations as of Sept 1 2025.

17.09.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Gentle reminder to all on the following:

Fuck Elon Musk and Fuck Russell Vought

Kindest Regards,
A Former Federal Employee

P.S. - oh and fuck the rest of the lot too

15.09.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Periodt

14.09.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really amazing as to how many cishet white men are suddenly so concerned about freedom of speech (democrat and republican).

Babe, when has anyone silenced you?

14.09.2025 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Not yet….

13.09.2025 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But to answer your question, I felt it went great. Towards the end I think I was sort of stretched thin and had to pull back. But the experience of chatting with folks on there has given me such great insight into vax hesitancy and communication.

13.09.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a huge demographic of folks who sit outside of the typical social media space. You will do amazing on there. Happy to chat if you ever need some additional insights

13.09.2025 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It was a huge untapped area of the internet where you had a lot of folks who would come in to broadcast their video games while chatting live with a chatroom. This would inevitably be a huge breeding ground for misinformation, so I positioned myself as a science communicator there

13.09.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I use to be on twitch quite frequently. Towards the last 6-7 years I used it to just do something like an instagram live and host live Q&A’s to answer questions about Covid, vaccines, etc and debunk bogus science

13.09.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The fluffiest handsomest orange cat

The fluffiest handsomest orange cat

Also bucket is now jealous ya’ll are paying attention to Pebble. He asks that you must pay his toll of treats and petting sessions

12.09.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
A sleepy fluffy grey kitten underneath an office chair

A sleepy fluffy grey kitten underneath an office chair

STOP DOOM SCROLLING

Look at the fluffy baby

12.09.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lots of questions here.

VAERS is a system that generates hypotheses. It is designed to be a very low threshold system for everyone, patients and providers, to submit adverse events for additional review and to generate more study.

12.09.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 136    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 11

Yesterday’s events have further cemented my mindset that folks cannot operate with nuance on the topics that need urgent addressing. We’re so focused on binary thinking, right or wrong, this or that, that we lose sight of what is actually killing us literally and figuratively as a democratic nation.

11.09.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
An orange cat and grey kitten are sharing a bed

An orange cat and grey kitten are sharing a bed

An orange cat sleeping next to a grey kitten

An orange cat sleeping next to a grey kitten

Bucket and Pebble are now inseparable πŸ₯Ί

05.09.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Profiteering grifters? Pro-grift-teering? It’s sad that we have this level of evil that the English language can’t even properly capture the immensity of it

04.09.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This man IS the face of the modern antivaxxer movement. Before even trump came into the picture. The damage is DONE. His actions will cost us decades of repair that goes beyond $$, this WILL kill so many.

04.09.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Remember this is the same asshole who continues to β€œskip” on all these briefings. We literally write up a whole play by play book on how to respond to multiple public health emergencies. How much has he read? Fucking ZERO. bsky.app/profile/drne...

04.09.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

All this sudden anger/language on RFK pisses me off more than anything:

➑️ stop calling him a vaccine skeptic. He’s an anti-vaxxer.
➑️ he and MAHA have always made it clear on removing/side stepping scientific experts.
➑️ he has NEVER intelligently spoke about public health.

Stop. Normalizing. Him

04.09.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 412    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 4
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First contact…..

03.09.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump has been so successful in being a fucking piece of shit every day that he has gaslit us into a frenzy on seeing what his press conference will discuss (we’re all hoping the same thing)

02.09.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Obvs ❀️❀️❀️❀️

31.08.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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